VISN 5 MIRECC - Fellows
Mary Katherine Howell, PhD
Email: [email protected]Research Interests: Culturally responsive treatment of stress and trauma for Veterans with serious mental illness (SMI); PTSD and insomnia treatment broadly, and more specifically brief interventions such as Written Exposure Therapy (WET), massed treatment schedules, and providing evidence-based treatments (EBTs) to Veterans with co-occurring SMI; role of vigilant thoughts and behaviors in sleep disturbance; patterns of subjective and physiological distress associated with improvement in exposure-based treatments; linguistic features of trauma narratives; psychological impacts of living or working in threatening environments; culturally responsive assessment and treatment.
Haley A. Miles-McLean, PhD
Email: [email protected]Research Interests: Trauma-informed and gender-responsive interventions for Veterans; impact of gender-based discrimination on Women’s mental health; use and experiences of intimate partner violence; interpersonal relationships among Veterans with serious mental illness (SMI).
